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Difference Quotes by Audre Lorde
- Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to…
- If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal…
- The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of…
- In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
- The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world,…
- Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
- Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles…
- The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences…
- For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will…
- When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.
More Difference Quotes
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because… — Chinua Achebe
- Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the… — Honore de Balzac
- There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I… — Drew Barrymore
- People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is… — Mary Kay Ash
- Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a… — Sri Aurobindo
- There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between… — Francis Bacon